Hi globals are already initialized to 0. Later, Juan. Index: drivers/sgi/char/sgicons.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/linux/drivers/sgi/char/sgicons.c,v retrieving revision 1.13.2.1 diff -u -r1.13.2.1 sgicons.c --- drivers/sgi/char/sgicons.c 6 Aug 2002 01:51:52 -0000 1.13.2.1 +++ drivers/sgi/char/sgicons.c 19 Dec 2002 10:38:05 -0000 @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ #include "gconsole.h" /* This is the system graphics console (the first adapter found) */ -struct console_ops *gconsole = 0; -struct console_ops *real_gconsole = 0; +struct console_ops *gconsole; +struct console_ops *real_gconsole; void enable_gconsole (void) -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy